Andre Bazin Quotes
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
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And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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When companies are jumping on the bandwagon to do plus size, they limit themselves.
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Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
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When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
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I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
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I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.
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The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.